Currently Out of Print, several cuts can be found on the SEIZE THE DAY AND OTHER STORIES best-of CD.

**** An uplifitng and potentially world-beating debut … Arends has a heartbreaking voice and the crack band serves up a variety of rootsy settings.” – The Record

Liner Notes

Thanks to… Brown Bannister — hero and friend… we got “the thing with the thing!” Debbie Bannister — for believing in this project. Steve Bishir — for a job exceedingly well done and for not “fixing” it later. Traci Sterling Bishir — for administration miracles and friendship… now if we can just get you on the world hunger problem… Leanne Ellis (Miss You), Martin Woodlee, and Joey Grinstead. Enormous gratitude to all the players and singers who appear on this record… I’m in awe of your talents. Special thanks to Gordon Kennedy for being strong (weak in no way) and to Chris McHugh for the laughing gas.

More thanks to… Terry Hemmings and my Reunion family, including Rob Birkhead, Ben “Buddy” Howard, Michelle Fink, Melinda Scruggs-Gales and Linda Bourne. Special thanks to Richard Headen (the hardest working man in show business) for getting the ball rolling, Chris Smith for approaching your job with principle and passion, and Carrie Jones and Elizabeth Simmons (the hardest working women in show business). Dan Raines, David Huffman, Pete Fisher, Melissa Banek, and everyone at Creative Trust for your sense of adventure, and to David Maddox and (Sir) James Chessir for Wise Counsel. Thanks to Andrea Tucker for believing in me long before it was rational to do so.

Immeasurable thanks to… Nicole Udzenija (thanks for introducing me to the Beatles… where would I be without you?), Sally Jones (the “ugly sister” I never had), Chris Jones, Connie Harrington (what does it take to change the essence of a pig?), Nicole and Jon Horodyski, Scott and Laurie Webb, Ray Salmond for generous gifts of talent and time, and for the Muggeridge quote. My Partners in Crime: Tim Holt, Spencer Capier and David Olson. Mark Heard and Frederick Buechner for life-changing inspiration. Love and thanks to Nana Bernice, Nana Jonat, Uncle Terry, Auntie Gail, Lee and Kim, and especially Uncle Doug (for inspiring me to pick up a guitar in the first place)… and to my wonderful Arends family.

Inexpressible thanks to… Chris, Cam, Dad and my crazy dreamer of a Mom… for bearing, hoping, enduring and believing all things — even that this record would one day be made. I love you guys.

And to Mark… Thank you for co-writing this whole adventure with me. Every day I am more amazed by who you are. You will always be the song my heart sings.